By train. SNCF railway station, place François Mitterrand, in Lorient Telephone : 3635. Many return journeys a day between Paris and Lorient. Regular service throughout the day from Lorient to Vannes, Nantes, Quimper and Rennes.

Discover the story of the submarine base

When France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, Vice-admiral Karl Dönitz, commander in chief of the German submarine fleet, decided to build one of the five Atlantic coast submarine bases in Lorient.

The first U-boats arrived in the Lorient dockyard in July 1940, but the biggest complex of buildings constructed in France by the Todt Organisation during World War II would be located on the Keroman peninsula.